Quoting Addicted2DVD:

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No because this this poll don't change the fact the rules allow for genres. Most people are voting for what they want to see... not what the rules say.

I will continue to vote no to any that does so... as well as resubmit any that does go through.

If the rules were so clear and not ambiguous, there wouldn't be a 4 page discussion on it.

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Quoting TheMadMartian:

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I am honestly at a loss here as to why anybody, that doesn't think a Box Set should have a genre, would even care.

If you don't use it, it has no impact on your collection.

I just want to point out that you are mistaken, Martian.
Genres on a box set can result in potentially unwanted hits in a genre search. It may not be a big problem, but it is certainly an impact.

As I don't search by genre, I will concede this point but I will add that it is a minor inconvenience when compared to what those that do use genres for box sets would use.

I will say this, though.  If I treated box sets as nothing but containers that held individual profiles, I would do what surfeur does and leave them out of my collection. 

Quoting TheMadMartian:

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As I don't search by genre, I will concede this point but I will add that it is a minor inconvenience when compared to what those that do use genres for box sets would use.

That may very well be true.

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I will say this, though.  If I treated box sets as nothing but containers that held individual profiles, I would do what surfeur does and leave them out of my collection

Depending on how you arrange your collection it may be hard to find a certain box set child if you don't know to which parent it belongs.

Quoting Addicted2DVD:

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looking through this thread most people agree that as the rules are written they belong in the parent profile.

I would prefer to say that most people agree that they are allowed, which is not quite the same thing as they belong. But it's a very fine difference, I admit. And since they are allowed, they shouldn't be removed.

The problem with the OP's question is that it is ambigous. It is either a question of interpreting the rules, or a question of personal preference. If it had been clearly stated as "do the rules allow genres in box sets", then the result would surely have been different.

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Quoting TheMadMartian:

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I will say this, though.  If I treated box sets as nothing but containers that held individual profiles, I would do what surfeur does and leave them out of my collection

Depending on how you arrange your collection it may be hard to find a certain box set child if you don't know to which parent it belongs.

I could be wrong, but I understood Surfeur's statement to mean he has no box set parents in his collection, only individual profiles.

So, to clarify my original statement, if I felt it was just a container that holds individual profiles, and the individual profiles are what is important, I would arrange my collection based on the individual profile.  I simply wouldn't track the 'container'.

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Good point, Yves.

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... they will contain some parent specific info, such as price paid (if you care about that).

Well, when I buy a boxset 60€ with 6 movies, I enter 10€  for each individual movie. Price of my collection is still exact.

Quoting GSyren:

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But it's factually incorrect since you didn't actually pay for each movie separately.

Not really. In this case I pay with 6x10€ bank notes, avoiding a global payment by credit card...